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Totally agree. He reads a lot of the stuff I read, and I tend to mostly read stuff that’s been super hyped up, like you’d find on the bestseller tables in Waterstones, so it’s nothing special.
Liberté! Fraternité! No-Jacques-té!
And when he speaks about the same book multiple times in different places, his comments are identical. The guy can't even be bothered to come up with something vaguely new to say about books he supposedly invested 300+ pages of time into beyond a super-vague, definitely-never-read-it pull-quote.
Jack's cover quote for Empowered: "A touching, deeply inspiring, and thought-provoking book written by a trailblazer and a powerhouse."
Jack's Goodreads review of Empowered: "A touching, deeply inspiring, and thought-provoking book written by a trailblazer and a powerhouse."
Jack's 2021 book recap comments on Empowered: "This is Vee's deeply inspiring, and thought-provoking memoir meets self-help book. It gave me goosebumps, it's so vulnerable and she is just powerhouse. And a trailblazer."
Me:
You Brits keep him, we don't want him here
his taste in books are basic (sorry to those who read similar) he "reads" whats hyped on tiktok and booktube cause he knows what will get him the ad revenue.
I recommend sunbeamsjess (for her book recs only lol) she reads a wide variety of genres and just not whats popular. she also spends time on her videos to talk in depth about each book and gives her honest opinions etc regardless if the author sent her an advanced copy (i'm looking at you jack and sally rooney)
I recommend sunbeamsjess (for her book recs only lol) she reads a wide variety of genres and just not whats popular. she also spends time on her videos to talk in depth about each book and gives her honest opinions etc regardless if the author sent her an advanced copy (i'm looking at you jack and sally rooney)
This makes me chuckle only because on Jess' thread people have been criticising her book recommendations and reviews. But I agree, she reads some interesting books!
yeah i cant help but have a soft spot for her book recs, only cause they're similar to my tastes
compared to Jack though shes outstanding lol
Not surprised his visa got rejected. Most countries like Spain where I currently am doing my year abroad offer a 90 day shortstay visa which you can get at the consulates. But what people don't realise is that the official limit now to stay in the EU is 90 out of 180 days (aka three out of six months) for everybody and to get around that you need to go through an entirely different process in the EU country. In Spain I had to pay a 15 euro tax and present the receipt of that, my form, passport photos, proof of my address and visa and passport at the police station making an appointment within 30 days of arriving. Then I had to wait six weeks for my application to be processed and then the day after I flew home from spending christmas in england (and less than a day before my visa expired) I made another appointment to collect it went back to the police station with the receipt of my application to collect my permiso de residencia which will last me til the beginning of June when my placement ends and after that I legally become a tourist rather than a resident and get the right to spend another 90 days in Spain but no longer to work. I was very careful to return within the time that my visa allowed as six weeks after my appointment was christmas and well I wanted to spend it in London with my family. It's a long ass process and kind of complicated but its doable if you do the research and gather the paperwork correctly for me the process was wayyyy easier in Spain than it was at the London Consulate and they were very friendly in Spain which made the actual appointments very easy (London was a nightmare I won't go into it) cos seriously both times I was out in half an hour. I reckon that Jack probably decided during his initial trip to extend it and missed the deadlines to complete the process in France and was kind of hoping to bypass it by trying to do it in London which is nearly impossible. There's plenty of information on the internet and consulate websites all it takes is a quick google search and it comes up with plenty of guides. Seriously Jack do you not understand that England ain't that special and we don't get special treatment just because we used to be a part of the EU nope we're treated like every single non-eu country out there.
(Edited as I realised I said shortday not shortstay guess I've been speaking too much spanish lately)
(Edited as I realised I said shortday not shortstay guess I've been speaking too much spanish lately)
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Omg where in Spain are you?? I’m here too and was planning to write the same thing hahaha, to have your visa rejected, you need to have done/understood something wrong during the application process. I mean it’s very confusing at first, but if you take your time to learn what documents are needed and exactly how the process works, it really isn’t too hard. To give him the benefit of the doubt, I don’t know how the French visa process works but I can’t imagine it’s entirely different to the Spanish one. I’ve seen multiple influencers recently claim they’ve “moved to *insert very typical European city*” and think to myself “yeah okay… “moved.” Are you a registered resident? Or are you basically on an extended holiday?” It’s frustrating for people like me and yourself who have ACTUALLY moved abroad and are living a normal life like a real resident. Tbh Jack didn’t annoy me as much as others, at least he was going to French classes and trying to learn French, he didn’t seem to be eating out for every meal like others do, he was living a fairly normal life. But overall wish they’d all stop glamourising the whole “moving abroad” thing when they’re not even doing it 100%…
Yeah if they were doing it properly we'd probably see them incredibly stressed out. I'm here working as an English Language Assistant (british council) working just outside Malaga (I won't give my exact location but if you've ever heard of the hike caminito del rey I'm very near there I'm planning to do it with my best friend of 8 years when she comes to visit in March) so my visa process was a little different because as its my year abroad for university I'm here as a student under the extending studies category and have a six month TIE (Tarjeta de Identidad para los Extranjeros) aka a permiso de residencia. I struggled a ton at first especially as the accent is ridiculously strong but I'm lucky to be in an area where everyone is very friendly and open and man there's a ton of brits and I eventually kind of got into my stride and now I feel like I've been here forever And yes agreed the whole moving countries and trying to get visa process is wayyy more stressful than influencers make it out to be and the paperwork feels endless I'm 22 now (21 during all of the visa process) and well I remember thinking I wasn't old enough or adult enough to do it yet
I’m a British Council language assistant too, but I’m a graduate and in the North, very far from you… and there’s very, very few Brits in my city
I was an assistant on my year abroad too in 2018/19 and loved it so much that I decided to do it again… and I’m applying to do it again next year! It’s a shame we have to live this way with visas and restrictions due to Brexit… I’m glad Jack is actually addressing it online and at least attempted the process, I appreciate that. I just cba with influencers that rent out an Airbnb in a city for a month and call it “their apartment” and claimed they’ve fully “moved abroad”… witch you’re just living in a holiday rental in another city while doing your normal job for a month!!!
Bad choice for him and people of uk as well.
When he said he is moving to france i thought he would build a life there at least for a year or so.
Instead he went back and forth to england frequently. Its like ruby going to her home in exeter and coming back home most of the weekends.
Covid is not over so if i was in charge i wouldnt allow people to come
Went and got his pretentious and cliche Paris insta shots and footage for vlogs. Bam he is done.
Like most influencers it's surface level
Agree. There’s the odd classic here and there that I would read, however his taste is Waterstones bestsellers. It makes me cringe when he “discovers” a book and makes a huge deal of it as though no one’s ever heard of it before.
I can see Jack having one of these for his baguettes.
was this an ESA d-type visa? Just asking bc I’m currently in the process of applying for it and there’s no info on whether it’s multi entry or not lol
I'm not sure if we applied for the same visa type (mine was a student one) but I do remember that there were two boxes on the form and you had to tick either single or multi (strongly recommend multi as you never know you may have to return unexpectedly)
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